Anyway, moving the topic to answered questions:
Q: How flexible are the diplomatic choices you can make? Are they more like decisions as to the sort of army you want?
The idea is to have quite a lot of them covering many aspects of how you want to rule your empire, in addition of course to how you want to run your campaign.
Who else is kind of excited by the possibilities? So few games let you run your own empire and those that do only let you do so in an abstract, detached kind of way (think Civilization).
I'm hoping that, while it probably won't be the major focus of the game, the opportunity to make decisons on how to run your territory sounds like it could be fun. Provided, of course, there is no one 'best' way to rule. It would also be fun to see if the way you run your empire also affects how the other contenders for the imperial throne view you.
